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On discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2024 – Agencies
Document FEMM-PA-779729 · 2025/2156(DEC)
- Kind
- Opinion parliamentary committee draft FEMM-PA-779729
- Date
- 24 November 2025
- Committee
- Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality
- Rapporteur
- Raquel García HermidaVan Der Walle
- Dossier
- 2025/2156(DEC)
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- Reference
- 2025/2156(DEC)
In short
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The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control to incorporate its views into the discharge resolution for EU agencies for 2024, focusing on EIGE. It recalls EIGE's role in promoting gender equality, notes limited progress in gender equality and financial strain on EIGE, and reiterates calls for increased funding and staff. It notes EIGE's high budget execution and confirmed accounts despite understaffing.
Position. The opinion rapporteur proposes that the Committee on Budgetary Control incorporate the calls for increased funding and staff for EIGE and the noted achievements into the discharge resolution.
Key points
- Gender equality is a founding value of the Union, and gender mainstreaming is established in Article 8 TFEU.
- The 2024 Gender Equality Index shows limited progress with only a 0.8 increase, and stagnation in women's health.
- Inflation has pressured EIGE's budget, reducing operational capacity and causing understaffing and financial strain.
- EIGE was established to promote gender equality through research and data, helping institutions and Member States mainstream gender equality and combat discrimination.
- Parliament reiterates its call for increased funding and staff for EIGE, given rising requests for technical assistance and higher operational costs.
- EIGE achieved 95% budget execution and met targets in its amended 2024–2026 programming document despite understaffing and high carry-overs.
- The European Court of Auditors confirmed EIGE's accounts present fairly its financial position.
Who is affected
- EIGE (European Institute for Gender Equality) – faces understaffing and financial strain, and is subject to calls for increased funding.
- EU institutions and Member States – benefit from EIGE's research and data for gender mainstreaming.
Figures and deadlines
Legal basis. Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union
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Opinion
The Committee on Women's Rights and Gender Equality calls on the Committee on Budgetary Control, as the committee responsible, to incorporate the following into its motion for a resolution:
A.whereas gender equality is one of the founding values of the Union and the Union is committed to promoting equality in all its activities as enshrined in Article 8 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), thus establishing the principle of gender mainstreaming;
B.whereas the 2024 Gender Equality Index demonstrates that Member States have made limited progress, with only a 0,8 increase; whereas in other areas such as women's health progress has stagnated;
C.whereas inflation has put increasing pressure on EIGE's budget, and has reduced the operational capacity of EIGE causing the agency to be understaffed and under permanent financial strain;
1.Recalls that EIGE was established to contribute to and strengthen the promotion of gender equality in the Union through independent, quality research and comparable data, to help EU institutions and Member States mainstream gender equality in all policies and combat gender-based discrimination;
2.Reiterates Parliament's call for increased funding and staff for EIGE, in line with rising requests for technical assistance and higher operational costs;
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European Parliament (2025). “DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2024 – Agencies”. Text, 24 November 2025. docId FEMM-PA-779729. EU Parl Watch Research. https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-779729 (retrieved 25 September 2026). Data: EP Open Data API: document record, https://data.europarl.europa.eu/api/v2/documents/FEMM-PA-779729 (CC BY 4.0).
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@misc{epw-text-femm-pa-779729,
author = {{European Parliament}},
title = {{DRAFT OPINION on discharge in respect of the implementation of the budget of the EU agencies for the financial year 2024 – Agencies}},
year = {2025},
date = {2025-11-24},
howpublished = {\url{https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-779729}},
url = {https://news.eu-parl.st-solutions.dev/texts/FEMM-PA-779729},
urldate = {2026-09-25},
publisher = {EU Parl Watch Research},
note = {Text. docId FEMM-PA-779729. Data: EP Open Data API: document record (CC BY 4.0)}
}